1616 Walnut Street Building

United States historic place


1616 Walnut Street Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

The 1616 Walnut Street Building in Center City Philadelphia
39°56′59″N 75°10′7″W / 39.94972°N 75.16861°W / 39.94972; -75.16861
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1929 (1929)
Architect	Tilden, Register & Pepper; Wark & Co.
NRHP reference No.	83004247^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 17, 1983

The 1616 Walnut Street Building or 1616 Building is a historic high-rise building in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A twenty-four-story building, it stands ninety-four meters tall.

Listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1982, it was then also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[2]

History and features

In 1930, the architects received an award for the building's design at the 12th International Buildings Congress in Budapest.

Its five-story parking garage on the Chancellor Street side, part of the original construction, was considered a novelty in 1929.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1982.^[2]

Residential conversion

In 2013, 1616 Walnut Street was renamed "Icon" as it underwent an extensive renovation, transforming it from commercial space to an apartment building.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "PRHP: List of properties with OPA-compliant addresses" (PDF). Philadelphia Historical Commission. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
^ Icon 1616 Apartments
^ Badger, Emily; Buchanan, Larry (11 March 2023). "Here's How to Solve a 25-Story Rubik's Cube". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2023.